postmodern fiction

House of Leaves may be on everyone's shortlist of postmodern
media-savvy novels, but are we ready for a retrospective collection
of essays on Mark Z. Danielewski? According to Daniel Punday's
review, Joe Bray and Alison Gibbons' collection says as much about
the current state of (post) postmodernist writing as it does about
Danielewski's scant oeuvre.

Eric Dean Rasmussen explores Lynne Tillman's "cognitive
aesthetic," suggesting that her work is powered by the generative
disconnect between asignifying affect and signifying emotion. He
argues that her 1998 novel, No Lease on Life,
examines the role of affectively sustained universal values in
responding politically to the neoliberal city.